Ventura County sheriff's officials are investigating the details of a high-speed pursuit over the weekend that resulted in the death of a Camarillo father of six. Stephen Paul Aguirre, 39, was on his way to the driving range at Camarillo Springs Golf Course on Sunday morning when he was broadsided by a Nissan Maxima traveling up to 80 mph. A Ventura County sheriff's deputy had spotted motorist David Inder Bagai, 30, driving erratically and was in pursuit at the time.

A rape suspect who threatened to stab himself to death was arrested early Monday by Ventura County sheriff's deputies following a six-hour standoff at his Camarillo home. Gary Scott Moneta, 21, was booked on suspicion of rape, false imprisonment and criminal threats. The incident began just after 6 p.m. Sunday in the 100 block of Spanish Moss Place, officials said.

A Northridge woman was fatally stabbed Tuesday on a Malibu-area beach and four inmates who escaped from a California Youth Authority facility in Camarillo were being sought in the killing, authorities said. Jacqueline Kirkham, 43, died from several stab wounds to the upper body, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy George Ducoulombier said. She was found in a public restroom at Zuma Beach County Park at about 4 p.m. by passersby and taken to a hospital where she died, the deputy said.

Wheelcare Ltd., an Israeli manufacturer of powered wheelchairs and electric vehicles and scooters, has chosen Camarillo as the site of its United States headquarters. Under the name Wheelcare Inc., the local office will be involved in sales, marketing and distribution of products sold in this country. For the short term, the focus will be on promoting the corporation's two new lines of wheelchairs.

The Red Cross said thieves have stolen gas out of its vans at least seven times in six months. Most cases involved siphoning the fuel, but on Tuesday someone cut the fuel line of a Red Cross van, spokeswoman Debra Creadick said. Repairs will cost about $150, she said. No arrests have been made. Local Red Cross officials are considering security options, including installing surveillance cameras to keep watch on the parked vans, Creadick said.

A Calabasas developer is seeking to build an upscale, 225-room hotel in Camarillo next year that would be the city's second hotel project after a nearly 12-year drought. Camarillo Hotel and conference center would be a four-story, 185,000-square-foot structure with two restaurants, pool, spa, fitness center and banquet facility large enough for 425 people. The property is at Las Posas Road and East Ventura Boulevard.

Compared to some of the memorials planned for the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and at the Pentagon, today's ceremony at Leisure Village will be a small affair. There won't be a solemn reading of names of those who died on that horrible day a year ago. No heads of state will be in attendance. A pack of battle-ready F/A-18s won't buzz by in honor formation overhead. But Milt Eisner, 82, will be there. So will Ben Perry, 84, Eisner's close friend and fellow native New Yorker.

Ventura County sheriff's deputies shot and wounded a Camarillo man late Tuesday after a three-hour standoff at his home, where he had barricaded himself with his father after a confrontation with police. Sheriff's Capt. Bruce Norris said the standoff began shortly after 6 p.m. when deputies attempted to confront John Elijah Rocks, 36, who had eluded authorities earlier during a high-speed pursuit. When approached by deputies, Rocks fled inside his home in the 800 block of Rowland Avenue.

In response to a sharp upswing in vehicle crashes, sheriff's deputies in Camarillo are planning a monthlong program to crack down on traffic violators. In the first 10 months of this year there were 722 crashes, up sharply from 627 in all of 2001, officials said. Of the 722, more than 500 were caused by driver negligence, including speeding, drunk driving, failing to yield for a stop sign and other right-of-way violations, officials said.

Ten schoolchildren suffered bumps and bruises Wednesday when the driver of their after-school day-care bus lost control and careened into a parked truck in Camarillo. In addition, bus driver Sean Kavanaugh, 33, sustained a minor ankle injury in the 2:30 p.m. crash on Ciprian Avenue, just east of Appian Way in north Camarillo, authorities said. Kavanaugh and the 10 children on the bus, most of them age 8 to 10, were taken to three area hospitals, where they were treated and released.